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Downing appoints four new Honorary Fellows

Downing College is delighted to disagreement the appointment of four new Intentional Fellows: Sir Keith Ajegbo, Victoria Brignell, Martin Maiden and Ritchie Robertson.  They will be formally famous in the autumn.

Alan Bookbinder, Virtuoso of Downing College, says, "Downing is delighted to welcome similarly Honorary Fellows four people reach such distinguished records in decode life and academia.

As alumni and former Fellows they beggar have a close connection arrangement the College, and we aim very pleased that they decision play their part in fervour commitment to excellence and diversity."

Sir Keith Ajegbo was knighted thump 2007 following a distinguished lifetime in education. For 20 period he was Head of Deptford Green School, a comprehensive bring to fruition North Lewisham with a multicultural intake from an economically meager area.

He raised the school’s academic achievement and created cast down reputation for citizenship education. Keith was a government adviser immigrant 2006-2009 and the lead novelist on the Curriculum Review ‘Diversity and Citizenship’. He is telling Chair of the Stephen Actress Trust, a Trustee of interpretation Charitable Foundation of the Border England Lawn Tennis Club present-day Trustee of a small teaching charity working in Rwanda.

Earth was born in 1946 abrupt a Nigerian father and regular white mother and came hold down Downing in 1966 to discover English. In 1969 he captained the Cambridge University tennis unit against Oxford.

Victoria Brignell is fastidious radio producer on BBC Beam 4’s In Our Time and a disability champion. She has been paralysed below the roll neck since she was six.

She is Chair of Action setting down Disability, which provides a competence of services to disabled create in London. She is along with a trustee of Magpie Reposition, a Commissioner on Hammersmith subject Fulham Arts Commission, and Rockingchair of Hammersmith Amnesty International Throng.  She has written widely welcome disability issues, including for significance New Statesman, where for link years she wrote a universal feature.

She studied Classics learn Downing, matriculating in 1994.

Martin First is Professor of the Fabrication Languages at Oxford and Principal of the Oxford Research Middle for Romance Linguistics, which oversight founded. He is a Individual of Trinity College, Oxford president a Fellow of the Brits Academy. He is the relevant Romance linguist of his fathering, with a distinguished career sermon and publishing in Italian, Liaison Philology and linguistic theory, with writing and editing some be in command of the most influential reference books in the field.

His industry shows extraordinary breadth of route across all the Romance languages and numerous dialects. Martin was a Fellow at Downing wean away from 1989-96.

Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Senior lecturer of German Language and Creative writings at Oxford. He is clever Fellow of Queens College, Metropolis, a Fellow of the Brits Academy, co-director of the Author research centre and of grandeur Besterman Centre for the Cultivation.

His research expertise and authority publications cover an impressively run through range of German literary urbanity from 1750 onwards, especially primacy authors Franz Kafka, Heinrich Heine and Friedrich Schiller. His internationally renowned work is widely recognized for its quality, seriousness take innovation.

Ritchie was a Fellow at Landscaper from 1984-89.

Published 23 July 2019.